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School of Media Studies

The School of Media Studies combines theory, research, production, and management studies, preparing students to succeed in a complex and rapidly changing media and communications
landscape. Studying in the world’s media capital, New York City, our students acquire critical insights and cutting-edge technical skills in rigorous topical courses taught by leading scholars and industry professionals.

The School of Media Studies’ faculty is a distinguished and diverse group of globally recognized and award-winning filmmakers, critics, curators, scholars, and artists. Many of our professors are active professionals in their respective fields, enabling them to bring the latest creative and technological innovations into the classroom.

At the School of Media Studies, you will have the opportunity to create your own work and collaborate with faculty and students on projects. You will also have opportunities to show your work in public showcases, present works-in-progress in monthly media workshops and screening series, and receive constructive feedback from faculty and peers.

The School of Media Studies’ community -- with its wide spectrum of interests, nationalities, and professional backgrounds -- fosters a prolific student output and collaborative ways of working that allow you to thrive creatively and personally.

At the School of Media Studies, we look for students with a passion and drive to reinvent media industries and create new narratives.
Our college admission team is available to help you find an academic path that will make you grow exponentially on a professional and personal level.

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Class of 2019

Callie Hanau came to The New School with a background in performance and nonprofit fundraising. In 2018, she interned with CreativeChaos vmg, whose documentary, This Changes Everything, recently premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. In her own films, she is interested in exploring the concept of rejection and how people find their place in the world.

Ambrus Hernádi comes from Budapest, Hungary. He obtained his master’s degree in film studies and then worked for six years as a camera assistant next to many renowned directors and cinematographers. As he assisted others in realizing their ideas and vision, his own creative impulses began to develop. He decided to come to New York and study documentary at The New School so that he could finally develop his own projects.

Zoe Hutton is a documentary filmmaker from London with a particular interest in telling stories that explore social issues. For the last six years, Zoe has been producing and shooting documentaries for UK television. While working at the BBC, she helped develop Murdered by My Father, a BAFTA-winning factual drama about honor killings, and assistant-produced No Place to Call Home, a Grierson-nominated BBC2 documentary about the housing crisis. Since then, she has worked on the BAFTA-winning BBC1 series, Ambulance, and has most recently been shooting and directing a BBC2 single film about social mobility.

Uwa Iduozee was born to Finnish-Nigerian parents and raised in Helsinki, Finland. He has a passion for intimate and nuanced visual storytelling. After working as a photographer for a few years, he grew frustrated with the limitations of still images and transitioned into filmmaking.

Caroline Macfarlane is an artist, curator, and urbanist from Toronto, Canada. After receiving an MA in art history from the University of Toronto, she worked as director of Ignite Gallery at OCAD University. Caroline has developed a passion for transforming the built environment through color and collaboration and sees art as a powerful tool for social change. She has designed and facilitated art programming for SickKids hospital and CAMH (Toronto) and Third Street Men’s Shelter (NYC) and has developed her own city-wide public art projects. She recently graduated with an MS in Design and Urban Ecologies from The New School.

Julia Mann has been interested in documentary filmmaking for several years now, having taken courses on the subject at New York Film Academy and Maine Media Workshops. Julia spent the past three years living in Tel Aviv, Israel, where she spent the last year working as “on-call” filmmaker for the African Refugee Development Center. She is very excited to be living in New York, studying filmmaking, and working part-time for a documentary producer.

Maria Mayo is a first-generation American-born filmmaker with Mexican and Native American heritage. Born and raised in California, she earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Southern California. After working in Spanish broadcast radio and marketing, she’s excited to create documentaries with a sociological lens that challenge stereotypes of indigenous communities, people of color, and immigrants.

Rebekka Rafnsdóttir is an Icelandic writer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work is rooted in philosophy and literature, although you will find traces of all the creative arts in her experimental stream-of-consciousness work. Her first documentary film and debut nonfiction book will both appear in 2019.

Catharina Schürenberg has worked in the costume and art departments of numerous film and television productions for the past six years. She has collaborated with directors and producers, helping turn creative visions into on-screen realities. Most recently, she was a costume designer for the award-winning documentary, Casting JonBenet, which premiered at Sundance in 2017.

Tyche Zhuge is a Chinese woman, a rebel, an advocate, a lifetime social worker, a documentarian-to-be, and an admirer of all the creativity on this planet.

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